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Creole potpourri
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jambalaya
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Word definitions for jambalaya in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1872, from Louisiana French, from Provençal jambalaia "stew of rice and fowl."
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
jambalaya \jam`ba*lay"a\ (j[u^]m`b[.a]*l[imac]"[.a]), n. A spicy Creole dish of rice with ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish, plus tomatoes, and seasoned with peppers, onions, herbs, and celery.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ There was cheese soup and a brat, or clam chowder and baked stuffed lobster, or gumbo and chicken jambalaya .
Usage examples of jambalaya.
I wanted to eat, crawfish done six different ways on a platter, and jambalaya and cold beer, with the jukebox playing the most cacophonous Cajun music I could have asked for.
She threw it all together in a sort of meatless jambalaya and hoped for the best.
He wants some gumbo and jambalaya, blackened catfish and crawfish etouffee, or maybe just a bowl of cool sweet cherries taken from the chiller.
How Jules had pined for the jambalaya and muffalettas and andouille-laden red beans of his youth!
That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between.
Nutmeats, dried fruit, diced vegetables, and even cubes of cooked meat, sausage, seafood or fowl tossed in near the end of the process can turn your pilaf into a complete meal, a biriani or jambalaya.
We scavenge the tapes from the backseat, which has degenerated into a jambalaya of bicycle shorts, cassettes, maps, and turkey-jerky wrappers.
So there were three huge stockpots frying turkeys, two chock-full of crayfish and com on the cob and new potatoes, big pans of jambalaya, soup tureens full of gumbo and etoufee, and thousands of oysters to throw on the grill.